Rapscallions!
"surprised and excited"
A grab bag of Confederate plots: Fake peace conferences! Robbing banks! Burning down cities! Kidnapping the vice president!
Categories: History, Series 14
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"New York, NY"
The city so nice they named it twice! The city so weird it features heavily in the following episodes!
Rapscallions!
"Patience is Sour"
Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and establish a "Northwest Confederacy." Too bad it was doomed to fail.
Categories: History, Series 14
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Universally Detested
New York’s worst governor, ever
Legend says Lord Cornbury was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson, a bully, a bigot, a corrupt spendthrift, a sex pest. Was he all that awful?
Categories: Biography, History, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 14
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The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills
confidante of kings, movie stars, and mobsters
The Countess di Frasso was the most famous hostess in the world, who threw parties for kings; actors, athletes and aviators; Nazis and mobsters.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Biography, Eccentrics & Prophecies, Entertainment & Media, People & Places, Series 13
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A Good Thing to Die By
the Reverend May S. Pepper and Bright Eyes
This one has it all: the afterlife, evil stepmothers, Kickapoo princesses, the Romanovs, bigamy and fraud, ghost farts and spirit chickens.
Categories: Biography, Footsteps into the Unknown, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Series 13
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Nuns on the Run
The Awful disclosures of Maria Monk
In 1835 Maria Monk claimed that Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu convent was a vice den. She was making it all up... but Americans desperately wanted to believe her.
Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 13
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Space is the Place
Doctor York and the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
The strange transformation of a Qu'ran study group into a UFO doomsday cult with a quick break in the middle for disco fever.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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520%
if something seems too good to be true, it probably is
William F. Miller promised a 520% return on your investment... and for many it was too good an offer to pass up. Too bad it was all a scam.
Categories: History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 12
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Your Heart’s Sorrow
the 1874 abduction of Little Charley Ross
In 1874 four-year-old Charley Ross was kidnapped in front of his family's Philadelphia home... and became America's first case of kidnapping for ransom.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, People & Places, Series 11
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Peacemaker
tear your world apart once the magic starts
This week we've got all the hot Peacemaker spoilers you've been craving! Assuming you don't mean the John Cena show.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, History, Man's Amazing Inventions
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Burning Fire, Deep Water
neither Venezuelan nor Volcano
Burnu Acquanetta, "the Venezuelan Volcano," was an exotic beauty who took Hollywood by storm in the summer of 1942... but who was she really?
Categories: Biography, Entertainment & Media, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 8
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Judge Crater, Call Your Office
the missingest man in modern history
On August 6th, 1930 Judge Joseph Force Crater walked out of a New York City restaurant and was never seen again.
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Most Popular, People & Places, Series 8
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